Animal-shears



(No Model.)

J. K. ALWOOD.

ANIMAL SHEARS.

No. 249,866. Patented Nov. 22,1881.

'ra rns PATENT JOSIAH K. ALW'OOD, OF MOBENOI, MICHIGAN.

ANIMAL-SH EARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,866, dated November 22, 1881.

' Application filed July 30,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSIAH K. ALWOOD, a citizen of Morenci, Lenawee county, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful 1m- 5 provement in Animal-Shears, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to machines for clipping sheep and other animals; and the object of my improvement is to provide a cutting device which will clip the fleece or hair from animals smoothly and without injury to them. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top-plan view of the device with its cap or handle removed. Fig. 2 is a top view with the cap or handle adjusted. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view at the outer or broader end of the cap or handle.

Similarletters refer to similar parts in all the figures.

A represents a metallic plate with a series of points, H, formed upon or attached to its outer or broader end for the purpose of gathering and holding in position the wool or hair of the animal while it is being clipped by the series of pointed cutting-edges I,which are formed upon or attached to the outer or broader end of the metallic plate B,which is pivoted to the plate A at its inner or smaller end by a pivot, 00.

0 represents a rotating rod, which receives its motion from a power applied at the universal joint G by machinery which need not be described in this paper.

E represents a crank or disk on the end of 3 5 the rod 0, provided with an eccentric-pin, K,

by which the rod D is connected to the said disk E, from which it receives a reciprocating motion. The reciprocatin grod D,being pivoted or jointed to the plate B at the point J, imparts to said plate B a reciprocating motion at its outer end, which, carries the cutting-edges I across the points H, causing them to clip the wool or hair between them.

F F represent journal-boxes fixed on the plate A for the purpose of holding the rod or shaft 0 in position.

L represents the wgoden cap or handle, to the nether side of which the plate A. with its parts, is fixed.

M N represent the regulator, consisting of a metallic plate or bar, M, fixed on the handle L, and a segment, N, pivoted to said plate or bar M, for the purpose of regulating the pressure of the cutting-edges I upon the gathering-points H. The pressure of the segment N upon the plate B is regulated by means of the screw in the forward end of the plate M, which holds the segment N.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination, in animal-shears, of the metallic plate A, having upon it a series of gathering-points, H, the plate'B, with a series of cutting-edges, I, upon its forward end, it

being pivoted to the plate A at its rear 0nd,.

the rod D,jointed to the plate B at the point J for the purpose of imparting to said plate a reciprocating movement, and the shaft 0 and disk E,by which said reciprocating movement is imparted, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a regulator for regulating the pressure of the cutting-edges upon the gathering-points, consisting of a metallic plate, M, and asegment, N, pivoted to said plate and resting upon the plate B of the implement,

and the plates A B and handle L, the parts being constructed and arranged for operation substantially as set forth.

JOSIAH K. ALXVOOD.

Witnesses SARAH S. ALWOOD, OELESTIA O. ALwooD. 

